What An Idiot / Pixar

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Being in three dimensions doesn’t mean you think that way, too.

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• A Bug's Life:
  • The ants need to make yearly offerings of grain for the grasshoppers.
    You'd Expect: They would leave the grains they collect for the grasshoppers in a secure place, where they could be absolutely sure it wouldn't be tampered with until the grasshoppers came to collect, and have a second stash stored safely underground just in case something were to happen with the first (like, say, being knocked into a place that nobody can access).
    Instead: Because they're stickers for tradition, they always pile it on a stone next to a cliff, where a slight accident causes it to topple and drop the food into an inaccessible crevice.
  • While debuting a risky new act for his struggling circus, ringmaster P.T. Flea ends up getting launched onto a sheet of fly paper doused with lighter fluid with a flame slowly approaching him on a trail of matches.
    You'd Expect: The circus bugs would immediately spring into action to save their boss, either by blowing out the flame or moving one of the matches on the trail so that the flame can't reach the fly paper.
    Instead: They do nothing of the sort, with only the clowns scrambling about to find water to put out the fire. This forces P.T. to frantically free himself as the flame draws closer, and while he succeeds he still gets burned due to the fly paper falling onto him and the flame.
    As A Result: The circus troupe is justifiably fired by P.T. on account of their incompetence nearly getting him incinerated.
  • After being convinced by Dot to continue on with his plot from earlier, Flik planned on having the circus bugs entertain Hopper as a distraction while Dot and the small ants pilot the model bird they've created to be used against Hopper.
    You'd Expect: For either Flik or the circus bugs to tell P.T. Flea of their plot. That way, he'll agree to come back to the colony, understanding what they are going up against.
    Instead: Neither of them does the above and tie up P.T. to the wagon. By the time the plot kicked in, P.T. broke free and mistook the plot as an attack on the bugs, so he ended up burning the model bird and dooming the ants to Hopper's mercy once again. While P.T. was only interested in money and didn't give any indication that he would care about the plight of the ants, pointing out that the queen would be very pleased with those that saved the colony might have helped.
  • After PT Flea has burned the fake bird with his match and Flik’s plan burns to the ground, Hopper demands to know who’s responsible for giving him and his grasshopper gang the scare of their lives and just as he is about to hurt Princesses Atta and Dot, Flik confesses that he was the one who came up with the idea.
    You'd Expect: That Hopper would immediately order Thumper to kill Flick on the spot. Flik’s already stood up to Hopper once before to defend Dot, and Hopper knows full well that if even one ant successfully stands up to him, they all might. Killing Flik in front of the colony as an object lesson against defying him would ensure no ant will dare to step out of line again and show that he follows his own advice.
    Instead: He asks Flik why he did this to him, causing Flik to expose Hopper’s plan of killing the Queen Ant, lets Flik live instead of killing him after having Thumper beat him up, and starts giving a speech about how ideas are “very dangerous things” and that the ants are “mindless, soil-sucking losers, put on this earth to serve [grasshoppers].” This gives Flik time to get up and call Hopper out on his lies and fear of the ants defying him, giving the ants the courage to fight back and drive their oppressors from Ant Island forever (just as Hopper feared) and he (with Atta’s help) lures the furious Hopper to the real bird’s nest to be eaten.
  • After Hopper is part of a long fight with the ants and their mechanical bird, which he eventually realizes is a fake, a real bird lands directly in front of Hopper.
    You'd Expect: Hopper to notice how much more lifelike this bird is and try to flee the scene.
    Instead: Thinking it's another fake bird, he taunts it, which causes to the bird pick him up and and feed him to her children, leading to his death.
• Brave
  • The whole plot kicks off when Queen Elinor receives notification that three tribes will send suitors to win her daughter Merida's hand. Merida's not keen on the idea, and the two have a disagreement about it. Fergus convinces Elinor to practice speaking with him as if he's Merida, and Merida carries on a similar conversation with her horse Angus.
    You'd expect: Elinor, after practicing talking to Merida with Fergus, would seek her daughter out, and Merida would do the same. They both have good intentions, each not trying to hurt the other, and they can find a middle ground, which they later do.
    Instead: Elinor keeps her words to herself while dressing up Merida for the occasion, and Merida keeps her mouth shut in hopes of devising a means out of the situation. Merida invokes Loophole Abuse to win her own hand which threatens a four-way war, Elinor furiously throws her daughter's bow into the fire, and Merida runs away in tears.
  • A worse mess ensues because Merida meets a stranger, who she soon realizes is a druid. Despite knowing absolutely nothing about magic, she bargains with this stranger for a spell to "change her fate".
    You'd Expect: Merida to listen to the witch about "unhappy customers" and her hints of warning such as, "Are you sure you know what you're asking for?" She could take her time to think about the wording of the spell as well if she's going to go through with it, since "change" can lead to so many possibilities. Witches were also considered wise women, so she could simply pay for advice on how to get out of an Arranged Marriage.
    Instead: Even after the druid ominously warns her that all magic has consequences, Merida insists on purchasing the spell, as well as all the witch's carvings, and pays no mind to the hints that the witch is dropping. Then the spell turns her mother into a Brainwashed and Crazy bear.
  • Following this, Merida seeks to undo the spell by going back to the witch's cottage with her mother. That in itself is reasonable, but the witch has left behind a message with potions and a Curse Escape Clause that is coded with vagueness.
    You'd Expect: That Merida would be at least a little more cautious about magic, considering that it had just turned her mom into a bear.
    Instead: She immediately tries to fix her mother by... grabbing potions at random and pouring them into a nearby hearth. As her previous experience with magic clearly shows, this only makes the problem worse. ^note Really, Merida's lucky that her antics only ended up terrifying herself and her mother and forcing them to sleep outside for the night.
  • Once Merida and her mother figure out the Curse Escape Clause that the witch left behind, Merida realizes that she has to mend the tapestry that she ripped earlier with her sword in a fury. That means going back to the castle, getting the tapestry, and sewing it.
    You'd Expect: Merida to have her mother wait outside the castle after the latter shows her the secret entrance, and mend the tapestry quickly before bringing it out to drape over her mother. As Merida put it earlier, Bear!Elinor in Fergus's castle is as good as dead if anyone sees her, and Elinor could easily revert into wild bear form as she did by the river.
    Instead: Merida brings her mother with her and barely gets her into the room with the tapestry. While Elinor helps Merida negotiate a compromise with the lords with some creative charades, she also reverts to bear form right when Fergus discovers his wife's torn dress in their room. Fergus, on seeing what he thinks is a wild bear attacking his daughter, draws his sword, and a fight ensues. The end result is that Fergus is on the bear hunt again, Merida and her mother haven't mended the tapestry, and the sunrise deadline is closer than ever. Merida then has to stop her father from killing her mother and mends the tapestry on horseback.
  • Also after this happens Merida tearfully confesses to Fergus what happened with the spell and the witch.
    You'd Expect: Fergus to take a moment to listen to his daughter, since even though he doesn't believe in magic, it's odd that someone like Merida would protect a bear that slashed her, not to mention that said bear ran off in fright after attacking him, which isn't what Mordu did.
    Instead: Fergus pays no mind at all to what Merida says and locks her in the tapestry room for her "safety". He leads the lords on a bear hunt and nearly kills his wife. He then fights Merida when she stops him from shooting Bear!Elinor and cuts off his wooden leg, and doesn't listen to her until the triplets tackle him in bear cub form and confirm her story. This only makes him vulnerable when Mordu, the actual bear threat, appears.
  • The tie-in short "Legend of Mordu" has one as well, for both the Witch and the Prince who would become Mordu. He wanted to claim the entire throne as the eldest son, rather than honor his parents' wishes and divide the kingdom equally amongst himself and his brothers, and their battles became a stalemate since they all had equal sizes in armies. As the witch tells Wee Dingwald, the prince wanted the strength of ten men, so she gave him a spell that would give him that, in exchange for his signet ring and the purchase of a cheeseboard. This would make him a Nigh-Invulnerable bear that became The Dreaded to Merida's family. He took the potion to the throne room where he and his siblings were meeting to discuss dividing the kingdom, while the prince had led them there under the pretense of a truce.
    You'd Expect: The witch would have made the Curse Escape Clause clear since, in only a few days, the spell would turn him into a bear permanently and make him feral. She says that her intention was to have the prince reconcile with his family, which Merida had to do to change her mother back.
    You'd Also Expect: The prince would realize as soon as he transformed that being a bear-king is a terrible situation for a lot of reasons. As we learn from the witch, he still had his presence of mind after being transformed.
    Instead: All the witch does is tell him he has a choice to make, and "either to fulfill his dark wish or heal the family bonds he had broken". The prince in bear form realizes he does have the strength of ten men and that his brothers are too stunned to respond to any attack. He not only ambushes his brothers but also slaughters them and any other men unlucky enough to be in the room. This violates Sacred Hospitality and shows his true colors.
    The Result: Naturally, when the bear-prince tries to lead his armies and claim the throne, no one wants to follow what appears to be a bloodthirsty man-killing beast that can't even talk. In turn, he attacked them, causing the kingdom to collapse. This led to the four tribes of Scotland dividing the land and only allying to stop the Viking raiders, causing Elinor's family to work for decades to undo the damage. Thanks to the prince killing his brothers, he couldn't ever change back, and in a few days, his mind gave into the beast and he lived for hundreds of years. Eventually, Mordu finds himself attacking the current king, Fergus, as well as his family, and in a great dose of irony, bear-Elinor ends up freeing him by crushing him with pillars. Only then does the prince regain his human form in death, and he nods in thanks to Elinor and Merida.
• Cars:
  • After wrecking the main road for Radiator Springs, Lightning is arrested and tasked with piloting Bessie (a road paver) to fix the road. Mater is tasked with coupling Lightning onto Bessie.
    You'd Expect: Mater to couple him onto Bessie first and then remove the boot. Even if he tries to escape, Lighting would be too burdened by Bessie's weight to run far.
    Instead: McQueen easily manipulates Mater into doing that in reverse order. He immediately makes a bail for it. He even dumbfoundingly lampshades that he should've done the above instead
    Fortunately: Sally and the Sheriff apparently saw this coming and siphoned most of Lightning's gas while he was asleep to make sure that he has to do his probation anyway.
  • Lightning is trying to figure out how to drive on dirt after losing a race to Doc Hudson on a dirt track the day before. He repeatedly keeps messing up the same turn, steering too hard and spinning out of control. Doc sees this and, beginning to have second thoughts about Lightning after seeing the new road Lightning paved as well as having previously been a pro racer himself (though neither Lightning nor the audience knows this yet) decides to try and offer him some advice. Specifically, he tries to tell him how to do a counter-steer by saying "If you go far enough to the left, you'll find yourself turning right."
    You'd Expect: For Lightning to either realize that he's trying to tell him to fix his trajectory before he spins out, or ask for clarification if he finds it nonsensical.
    Instead: He interprets his statement in the absolute most literal possible way, "turn right to go left," lets his pride get the best of him, and totally brushes Doc off, calling him a "crazy old grandpa car."
    The Result: As soon as Lightning gets back on the road, he proceeds to make an even bigger fool of himself when he tries the exact Literal-Minded interpretation he came up with, with disastrous consequences. Plus, Doc goes right back to disliking him after having his advice blown off. Lightning only figures out the technique when he spies on Doc performing it.
• Cars 2
  • The Big Bad is a lemon mob boss with a civil face. His plot is to sabotage the view of alternative fuels so that cars will switch to gasoline indefinitely while an oil rig in the mob's hands is being developed. The Big Bad is revealed as Sir Miles Axlerod, who manipulates the other lemon mobsters by talking about how others mock them and hate them since they are prone to leaking and breaking down.
    You'd Expect: He would keep his cover and not retain any evidence that he's with them.
    Instead: Sir Miles uses gasoline and oil, and not alternative fuels, in his car. He also leaks at the big party in Japan, which he has to blame on Mater. To top it all off, the bomb strapped to Mater in the climax is done with wet-work bolts, the same bolts used in his faulty engine, and is voice-activated by him.
    The Result: Mater gets a "Eureka!" Moment and puts all these little clues together. He and Lightning fly and confront Axlerod. To get him to deactivate the time bomb, Mater corners Axelrod after doing his Kirk Summation and makes him give the voice command to save both their lives. Axlerod is caught and taken into custody when not even Agents Finn and Holly had suspected him.
  • The American agent Rod "Torque" Redline got a picture of the Big Bad. He's in disguise at the Japanese race of the Grand Prix. He has to get the picture to Finn, whom he knows by name. Unfortunately, the lemons are onto him.
    You'd Expect: Rod would stay in disguise, in a public place where he can't be cornered, and use the Trust Password that all the spies know.
    Instead: He goes into the bathroom and sheds his disguise.
    The Result: The lemons corner him and start beating him up. Holly, who's been ordered to meet with him, doesn't want to go into the men's room and doesn't reach him in time. It's only due to Mater struggling with the foreign toilets that Mater doesn't overhear the struggle, and Rod takes the time to plant the picture on Mater as the latter leaves. Then the lemons capture Rod, torture him to find out where the picture went and murder him.
• Coco:
  • The film starts when Miguel reveals to his music-hating family that he loves guitar, and is convinced that music star Ernesto is the man who went missing to pursue his career years ago. Abuelita is infuriated and smashes Miguel's handmade guitar, a moment that shocks everyone else.
    You'd Expect: Someone would realize that Abuelita went too far. There is a difference between forbidding music and destroying your grandson's personal property. The family needs to actually confront the stigma that's existed for ages.
    Instead: Everyone expects Miguel to move on from it and they start setting up duties for him in their shoe shop, as no one has the guts to stand up to Abuelita.
    The Result: Miguel's parents are floored when he runs away, and if he hadn't been cursed by stealing the guitar from the shrine, it's implied he might have become homeless. They frantically search for him, especially since the last thing he said to them was that he didn't want to be a part of their family anymore.
  • After traveling with Ernesto for several months in order to find inspiration and share his music with the world, Héctor slowly becomes disillusioned with the traveling life. Homesick, he decides to quit touring and return home to his family.
    You'd Expect: For Ernesto to agree and peacefully part ways with his old friend. While he lacked the ability to write songs, he was handsome, charismatic, and talented at singing and playing guitar, and the two were already on the cusp of fame when Héctor decided to go home. He could've hired a songwriter to help himself if he ever needed new material to write down. Furthermore, he could've just simply asked Héctor for permission to use his songs.
    Instead: He murders Héctor with a poisoned tequila for his songs and guitar.
  • Having successfully stolen Héctor's songs, Ernesto has lived in the lap of luxury, and just to flaunt his ego even further, he decides to make some movies.
    You'd Expect: Him to make movies of live performances, or maybe creating the stories from whole cloth - or literally anything that doesn't contain Héctor's murder.
    Instead: Ernesto decides to make a movie that has a scene reenacting Héctor's murder, but with him as the victim who sees through the deception in time. Miguel sees footage of this movie and points it out to Héctor, who slowly realizes the truth of his death.
  • Just as Ernesto was about to give Miguel his blessing and send him back to the living world, Héctor arrives and pleads with Miguel to put his own photo on his ofrenda. However, before Ernesto could process this, Miguel and Héctor watch the footage and realize that he murdered Héctor before he was about to go back to his family, which causes him to reveal his true colors as a sociopath in front of them.
    You'd Expect: That Ernesto would rip the photo apart to ensure Héctor's Final Death; or if he can't do that, put it somewhere where no one will ever find it, such as his vault or into the sea.
    Instead: He puts the photo in his pocket, and the fight to retrieve it allows the Riveras to inadvertently expose him for the man he truly is to the entire Land of the Dead. Though the photo still gets destroyed shortly after, Miguel manages to get home, save Héctor from Final Death, reconcile with his family, and expose Ernesto's lies. Now Ernesto's permanently disgraced, remembered in both worlds only as a fraud who murdered his own friend for his songs.
• Finding Nemo:
  • Marlin and Coral have just laid 4000 eggs, and can't wait for them to hatch. Just as they discuss names, and Coral says she wants one to be named Nemo, a barracuda appears, obviously hungry. The barracuda is watching them, for signs of movement. Marlin remembers that barracuda don't eat eggs, but rather live fish and tend to avoid clownfish since they live in anemones. He tells Coral they need to stay inside their anemone and not panic because the barracuda will realize they aren't on the predator's normal menu. The problem is their babies are resting within the cliff below the anemone, and Coral is obviously worried the barracuda will go for them.
    You'd Expect: Coral to not move, or retreat to the anemone. If Marlin knows that barracuda generally don't eat eggs, then she surely does.
    Instead: She swims down to protect the eggs, in a Senseless Sacrifice.
    Predictably: The barracuda is attracted to the sign of movement and goes after her. Marlin in a Moment of Awesome attacks it to try and defend his wife, but the barracuda smacks him into the anemone wall and knocks him out. When he comes to, Coral is gone; so are most of the eggs. Either the barracuda was provoked to attack her in turn, or another opportunistic predator couldn't resist. Marlin grieves and cares for the sole egg, calling him Nemo in his wife's memory.
  • The dentist plans on offering Nemo to his young niece as a gift. Unfortunately, Darla is an ignorant Spoiled Brat who accidentally killed her last fish when she wouldn't stop shaking the bag.
    You'd Expect: Assuming that the dentist knows that she's killing her fish, he'd offer her something she can't accidentally kill, or at least teach her how to properly care for her pets to ensure the same thing doesn't happen again.
    Instead: He decides to go ahead and offer Nemo to her anyway. ^note  It's entirely possible he isn't aware of her fish-killing tendencies - the photo of her holding a dead Chuckles might have been taken by her parents and the goldfish's belly-up posture is a small detail he's never really noticed - but even still, why would he gift her a fish he went to the expense and effort of personally harvesting from the Great Barrier Reef? (For non-Australians, pretty much the entire reef is a national park - you need an expensive and hard-to-get state-issued license to harvest any sealife, in order to prevent overharvesting.)

G-L

• The Good Dinosaur:
  • In a world where the dinosaurs survived and have become settlers, Henry and his wife have three children. The Runt at the End, Arlo, is trying to earn his mark like his older siblings by feeding the hens. The only problem? The hens keep attacking him. He also messes up his siblings' chores while running from the chickens. Eventually, Arlo gets tired of this and tries to face the hens and shove down his fear.
    You'd Expect: That his siblings wouldn't mess up Arlo's chances. Or, alternatively, they could help him not fear them because while his fear is rational, it does make him The Millstone.
    Instead: Buck, a Big Brother Bully, plays a prank on Arlo with the hens, which messes him up. He then knocks over Arlo when the latter gets understandably angry at him. This ends up starting a chain of events that leads to the father Henry dying and the family farm going to ruin.
  • After this point the whole family sees Arlo raging at Buck. It's obvious that Buck played a prank on Arlo and has sabotaged the one time he's tried not to be scared.
    You'd Expect: Henry and his wife would give Buck a What the Hell, Hero? speech and help Arlo work smarter, not harder. The siblings should be supporting each other, and Arlo needs more time and confidence to make his mark.
    Instead: Buck doesn't get lectured, making him a Karma Houdini because Jerkass Has a Point. While Henry does cheer up Arlo by taking him out at night to see fireflies, he decides to have his youngest son capture a pest that's getting into their food, rather than help him with the hens. When Arlo sees the pest, a tiny human he names Spot, he can't kill it and frees it. When this happens, Henry takes him on a trip that ends up killing him and strands Arlo far away from home. Arlo then has to make the trip with the human Spot while dealing with his dad's death.
• The Incredibles
  • The Super Ban culminated with Mr. Incredible saving a guy who was trying to kill himself as well as stopping a monorail from falling off the damaged track but resulting in the passengers getting injured.
    You'd Expect: While there may not have been Good Samaritan Laws back then, the people would've realized the crash wasn't the hero's fault. Not to mention that the guy who almost committed suicide clearly had more than a few screws loose.
    Instead: They blamed Mr. Incredible for everything, which resulted in more citizens turning on Supers, thereby initiating the ban.
    As A Result: Not only are all the heroes forced to go into hiding and keep their identities a secret, but over the years, crime increases significantly. Of course, there's also the matter of a certain supervillain rising in power and plotting to destroy cities to make himself look like the bigger hero.
  • In a deleted alternate opening, Bob and Helen "Smith" have moved into the neighborhood and are attending a housewarming barbecue. Helen makes conversation with a new neighbor, Beth Anderson, who works as a commodities broker, and Helen reveals she's a homemaker. Beth excuses herself, so Helen goes with baby Violet to talk with the other mothers.
    You'd Expect: While Beth doesn't have to be nice per se, she could keep her disapproving comments about stay-at-home moms to a whisper. Logically speaking, you don't want to burn your bridges with the neighbors or worse, the HOA. If she Can't Hold Her Liquor, as the wineglass indicates, she surely has enough common sense to only have a little bit and be mean in an undertone the way professionals do it.
    Instead: She loudly starts ranting about how having a "snot-nosed kid" would ruin her life and that she wouldn't want to give up everything for a child. It's so loud that everyone in the party hears Beth saying this.
    The Result: All of the mothers with Helen glare at Beth, and Helen gives her a "The Reason You Suck" Speech. Considering how the non-mom partygoers also look awkwardly at Beth, and Bob (who is cutting up steaks) is shown to be one of many in Stunned Silence by Beth's comments, it's also likely that had Helen not stepped in, someone would have likely called Beth out for being rude towards her new neighbors at the very least.
  • Syndrome's plan is to send his Omnidroid to attack Metroville so he can swoop in and "save the day", thereby looking like a hero.
    You'd Expect: That he would rehearse the fight on his island so that he could make it look real and impressive, and he would put in a fail-safe like a programmed virus to shut down and kill the Omnidroid immediately if it ever got the bright idea to try and attack or kill him.
    Instead: Syndrome just shows up and wings it, showing a lame display of superheroics and the fact he has a remote control to keep the Omnidroid at Bay.
    As a Result: With no restrictions placed on it, the Omnidroid, once it is frozen by Syndrome's remote control, analyzes it as a threat and shoots it off his wrist before trying to kill him. Syndrome flees in panic, flies into a building, and knocks himself out, ruining his Engineered Heroics scheme.
  • Helen after Bob finds his new purpose is at first pleased. He stops coming home late at night covered in ashes, gets into shape, gives her a lot more love and a new car, and spends more time with the kids. Then she finds a hair on one of his business suits, a long white hair. Suspicious, she listens to a phone call where a strange woman asks Bob to come over. Then she notices Bob's old suit got repaired, and only Edna Mode would have done it. Edna then shows her all the prototypes that she designed for the entire family, factoring in their powers. When a confused Helen asks for an explanation, Edna gives her the tracking device to Bob's new suit, which reveals that Bob is on a remote island.
    You'd Expect: Helen would put all the red flags together: Bob not doing illicit hero work that leaves ashes on his clothes, his old suit getting mended and replaced by Edna Mode, and their improved sex life. He's somehow found a way to reignite his old passion of doing heroics.
    Instead: Helen assumes Bob is having a midlife crisis - which is true- and an affair - which isn't. After she breaks down in tears in front of Edna, the latter encourages her to go find Bob and kick the crap out of him for it.
    The Result: Helen goes to the island without any planned backup, though she calls in a favor from Snug to get a plane. If Violet and Dash hadn't stowed away after getting a Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass babysitter for their brother, then Helen would've been trying to rescue her husband completely alone, with no one knowing where she was. Including their kids.
  • After Syndrome gambles with her life, Mirage decides to pull a Heel–Face Turn. It helps that she learns that several unknown people survived the plane crash. She goes to free Mr. Incredible, who has spent the night in his restraints thinking his entire family died.
    You'd Expect: She would remember that she isn't the most trustworthy person to him after she lied to him about everything and that he'd threatened to kill her once already. She should tell him that his family's alive from a safe distance, allow him to process the news, and then free him.
    Instead: She frees Mr. Incredible first, goes straight to him, and whispers for him to move fast before they're both caught.
    The Result: Mr. Incredible strangles her in a grieving rage before she can tell him his family's alive. She's pretty lucky that he didn't snap her neck off the bat, as he'd threatened to do earlier.
  • Syndrome has recaptured the Parrs. He finds out to his delight that Mr. Incredible "married Elastigirl...and got busy!" The Parrs can do nothing while trapped in zero-G, as he floats them around his island. He then puts them all in the same restraints that held Mr. Incredible a few hours ago. At the least, they're too heavy for Elastigirl to break or for Dash to use his Super-Speed.
    You'd Expect: After leaving for his plan, he would order his Elite Mooks to put the family on heavy surveillance. Mr. Incredible escaped before, and he could again.
    Instead: He walks off to his ship, and the guards hole up in a van to do a Drinking Game for every bit of damage the robot does.
    The Result: The minute Syndrome is out of the room and they realize they're not being watched, Violet rolls her eyes. It turns out her shield powers can negate the restraints, and she casually rolls over to the controls as Bob gives an apology to his family for endangering them. She frees her family, and Bob takes out all the guards in the van within seconds.
    To Make Matters Worse: No one was manning the security cameras. Mirage sees the family headed to the hangar on the camera that she glimpses and offers her assistance with the changed passwords.  
  • The short Jack-Jack Attack has one in retrospect for Syndrome. After the Parrs and Frozone succeed in defeating the Omnibot and stealing his thunder, he goes to their house to wait for them and seek revenge. The door opens, revealing the house is in shambles, and a Twitchy Eye babysitter thinking he's her replacement. She hands him an infant while obviously sleep-deprived. Syndrome, in a rare Pet the Dog moment, doesn't hurt Kari on seeing how stressed she is and lies that the S on his costume is for "Sitter".
    You'd Expect: He would either ask her what happened or put two-and-two together. By logic, the house could have only been damaged by a super. There's no way a preteen and an infant could have caused so much damage otherwise. Then put Jack-Jack in stasis, just in case, or kidnap him now while he's calm and leaving a ransom note.
    Instead: He apparently cleans up the house to make it look like nothing is wrong and puts Jack-Jack to bed. Then Syndrome waits for the family to return so he can do Evil Gloating.
    Predictably: After he makes his getaway, Jack-Jack wakes up from the noise and is cognizant enough to realize he's being kidnapped. He then activates multiple powers to free himself from Syndrome's grip and sabotage him. As Helen catches her falling son, Bob takes the opportunity to kill Syndrome by tossing a car at his plane now that the villain no longer has a hostage.
• Incredibles 2:
  • Several months after Syndrome terrorized the city with his robot and the supers came out of hiding to save everyone, the public opinion towards supers is finally changing after a decade. Mr. Dicker in the previous film promised the Incredibles family that while Congress argues out the red tape, the family has nothing to worry about during the transition. In the meantime, the villains return and are too much for the police or ordinary military to handle.
    You'd Expect: Congress would quickly pass a law of pardon for supers. This isn't rocket science; they are needed, practically speaking.
    Instead: Mr. Dicker gets fired and the supers are still considered overpowered vigilantes. This means that every time the family dons their masks, they are risking their lives and breaking the law.
    The Result: The Parr family is put through the wringer after they work to stop the Underminer, with Violet, in particular, getting the short end of the stick. When a PR executive hires Elastigirl to be the new face of superheroes, she lampshades that she has to break the law to do her new job. When a new villain comes who vows to destroy the supers once and for all, they're pretty much unbeatable.
  • During the Underminer rampage, Bob tells the kids to stay out of the fight. Helen hands off Jack Jack's stroller, and Dash quickly runs to leave Violet with the baby and set up a perimeter. Violet's unhappy about being saddled with babysitting duty.
    You'd Expect: Violet would keep her mask on; it's the first rule Helen taught her about being a hero.
    Instead: She throws it off in a fury.
    The Result: An Innocent Bystander sees her without her mask. Which happens to be the boy who asked her out on a date at the track meet, Tony Rydinger.
  • Tony freaks out and ran because he was surprised from seeing Violet in the suit, without her mask. Violet feels awful and doesn't know what to do.
    You'd Expect: Violet would keep quiet about the discovery and trust him to keep her secret safe, or talk with him privately later about being in "drama class" with tights as she attempts later, or about the truth. After all, he's nice enough not to tell anyone about it, especially his parents. Who knows? With her secret revealed to him, that should bring them closer together.
    Or: If she wanted him to forget about it, she should tell her father, Bob, about what happened and be specific about the event that needs to be erased from his mind. Also, she should tell him about her relationship with Tony just to be safe.
    Instead: She told Bob about the discovery without telling him of her relationship with Tony, nor what memory needs to be erased from his mind.
    The Result: Assuming Tony is just a civilian blackmailing/threatening his daughter's secret, Bob told Mr. Dicker to wipe all of Tony's memories of Violet, which he did. This means he stands her up accidentally because he forgot their date. Violet yells at her father when she finds out and tries to destroy her super suit. When Mr. Dicker hears from Bob, he apologetically says that memory wipes are imprecise and implies they can't be undone. Bob tries his best to fix the situation but ends up making his daughter feel worse by taking the family out to a place where Tony works part-time. Violet finally decides to move on by talking to Tony one-on-one and getting another date with him, starting a new relationship.
  • It's revealed that the villain's motivation is to destroy the Supers once and for all, by mind-controlling them into terrorizing ordinary people, because her father died due to underground supers not responding to his distress call, causing her to believe that if he hadn't wasted his time Holding Out for a Hero, he'd still be alive. Note that Supers are still illegal, and a tech CEO wants to bring them back so that no more preventable tragedies will happen. Said Big Bad is the CEO's sister, whose family was the victim of a preventable tragedy.
    You'd Expect: She would realize that the Supers weren't to blame for their father's death, but their father's own choices. Supers weren't allowed to use the emergency distress call phones, and as we saw with Mr. Incredible, trying to save lives discreetly is very dangerous for Supers and ordinary people alike.
    Instead: She uses Insane Troll Logic to justify supposedly supporting her brother's attempts to restore the Supers, only to turn on him and his new hires to get "revenge" for their father and ensure that people will save themselves rather than rely on supers to do it for them, all while ignoring the fact that dangerous supervillains still exist.
    The Result: Her actions ensure that the Supers are made legal again. On top of that, her relationship with their brother is destroyed.
  • On that mark, Evelyn, in a fit of Evil Gloating, reveals that she considers herself the responsible sibling to Winston's foolish sibling, saying he's a child who equates having superheroes with having good parents. Part of her plan involves having a boat crash with all the international supers and their ambassadors and sparing Winston by dragging him aboard an escape plane. And she knows he believes in the supers and the good they can do.
    You'd Expect: If trying to "save" her brother then she'd have restraints handy to keep him on the plane once he gets the gist of the situation. Such as the same goggles she used on Helen and her brother's supers team, or even a handy rope to tie him to one of the seats. As we saw, she knows her brother's idealism to a fault.
    Instead: She drags Winston onto her escape jet fully conscious and gives him enough information for him to figure out that she's the Screenslaver and plans to let everyone die on the ship. In other words, she destroyed everything he was working for, including his good intentions, and didn't consider he would take it personally.
    The Result: Winston predictably refuses to go along with his sister's plan and jumps back onto the boat, breaking her hypnosis screens and preferring to save everyone or die trying. By that time Evelyn can't grab him because she has to fly, so as far as she knows she killed her brother. In the end, when she gets arrested, he apologizes to the supers for what Evelyn did, lets the Parrs stay in his fancy house while still employing the parents, and implies he's going to testify against her for what she did, even if with her connections she'll get "a slap on the wrist".
• Inside Out has a few moments as well.
  • Riley's parents notice that she's not happy while trying to keep up a pretense that nothing is wrong despite all the problems happening with the move: the apartment being dirty, the family's things are nowhere in sight thanks to a moving truck gone awry, and San Francisco having broccoli on pizza. At dinner, after her first day of school, she gives a nervous reply that it was fine. Mom notices something is wrong.
    You'd Expect: Mom is established as being smart and empathetic. She could tell Riley to ignore what she said earlier about staying happy because obviously, everyone is upset and stressed.
    Instead: She gives a silent gesture at Dad to break the ice with Riley, who isn't in the mood to talk.
    Predictably: The whole family gets into a fight because Anger takes over Riley and gets defensive. Dad sends Riley to her room for backtalking him and thinks it's a great idea to apologize by doing their silly monkey routine. Goofball Island falls apart in Riley's head.
  • While making the long trek back to headquarters, Joy and Sadness run into workers that send an Ear Worm as a joke through recall tubes.
    You'd Expect: Joy would send several of the core memories up to tide Anger, Disgust, and Fear using those same tubes, as How It Should Have Ended noted, so that the remaining personality islands don't collapse as Sadness and Joy make the long trek back, using the Train of Thought.
    Instead: Joy insists that she has to personally take the core memories back to headquarters, not even letting the possibility cross her mind since the core memories are too valuable. This oversight ends up costing her and Sadness crucial time; when she thinks to use the recall tubes to transport herself and the memories much later on, they collapse due to Honesty Island collapsing at the same time.
  • Bing Bong points out a "shortcut" that says "DANGER- Keep Out". Bing Bong can't read, but Joy very well can. Sadness realizes what the danger is and warns Joy not to go in.
    You'd Expect: Joy would listen to Sadness's worries and bypass the "shortcut", given the sign and all.
    Instead: Joy and Bing Bong go in, with Sadness reluctantly following to help them out when they get turned into abstract thought. Cessation of Existence nearly ensues.
  • The Train of Thought stops for the night, since Riley needs sleep. Joy is frantic since without the train they have a long journey ahead of them. They sneak into the dream-making studios to try and wake Riley up.
    You'd Expect: Each emotion has alternating dream shift duty; Joy in fact was on one, and the dreams tend to be repetitive. Joy and Sadness after crashing the dream could try and send a message to Fear, Anger or Disgust through the images to not do anything rash and that Joy and Sadness are on their way back to headquarters. The dream has a Weirdness Censor, but even Fear can see through most of it and criticize the quality.
    Or Even: Either Joy or Sadness to realise that nothing can happen to Riley while she's asleep and stay put until morning, when the Train of Thought will arrive at Headquarters as normal.
  • Instead: Joy focuses on waking Riley up in order to return tout suite. Thus, Fear has no idea what's going on when he sees the strange nightmares that the other two emotions cause, Anger chides him for waking Riley up during a nightmare (unaware of Joy's intentions due to Joy not bothering to explain her plan to Fear), and inserts the idea of Riley running away back to Minnesota. To add insult to injury, Joy and Sadness miss the Train of Thought, Sadness floats off, and it's down to Joy's last-ditch attempt to return by Human Ladder. (On the other hand, Joy would have never learnt what Sadness' reason for being was due to reviewing the core memory, so she wouldn't have been able to remove the idea of running away).
• Luca:
  • To try and protect Luca, his parents decide to send him away after learning he's been visiting the surface ^note Keep in mind that so far, he's only been to an uninhabitated island with a fellow sea monster and has yet to encounter any monster-hunting humans... or humans period.. They reason that he needs to be far from the temptation of the surface world.
    You'd Expect: They would choose an option appropriate for Luca, a young boy. Perhaps send him to another sea monster community further away from shore.
    Instead: They want to send him to live with his Uncle Ugo, an angler-fish merman who lives down in the deep sea. This "solution" would cause Luca to have to deal with the lack of light, high pressure, and little oxygen of the new environment, but worse, there would be nothing for him to do in the darkness but sit with his own thoughts.
    The Result: Luca rightly points out this is a messed-up solution, not helped by Ugo's creepy display of "sanity". He runs away to join Alberto, reasoning that the dark tomb of the deep sea is a horrible fate and he'd rather run the risk of dealing with people who may hunt sea monsters.
  • Ercole is shown to be The Bully of Portorosso with a particular grudge against Giulia, Alberto and Luca. While searching for sea monsters on a motorboat with his cronies Guido and Ciccio, he spots the three kids training for the race with Giulia swimming and Alberto and Luca paddling in her rowboat. Seeing his three rivals in one place (and no adults around to reprimand him), Ercole can't pass up the opportunity to mess with them...
    You'd Expect: He'd choose to do something petty yet safe for all the parties involved, like order Guido and Ciccio to jump into the water and capsize Giulia's boat.
    Instead: He tries to outright ram his motorboat into Giulia's rowboat. This act could've easily gotten himself and everyone else involved seriously injured or killed.
    The Result: When it's apparent Ercole isn't just trying to scare them, Guido realizes the danger, grabs the rudder from Ercole, and turns it sharply, narrowly missing Giulia's boat.

M-R

• Onward
  • The movie gets one in the first fifteen minutes. Ian is trying to get ready for school, wearing their dad's sweatshirt, and grab some breakfast. When his big brother Barley insensitively thwarts his attempt to get some cereal, Ian opts to get toast instead. Barley attempts to convince Ian to play some roleplaying games with him, but knocks the toast to the ground. He playfully tries to claim them using the five-second rule, only for his hands to get caught on the sweatshirt. Cue a Mass "Oh, Crap!" from everyone in the room as the sleeve tears and Barley's claw is snarled around the thread.
    You'd Expect: Barley would not move, apologize for trying to steal Ian's breakfast, and let the atmosphere quiet down on his little brother's birthday.
    Instead: He keeps squirming around and going on about another topic. This causes the sweatshirt to rip further.
    The Result: Their mother has to intervene. She shoots Barley a Death Glare while ordering him not to move, snips the thread, and apologizes to Ian. A disappointed Ian gives up since that was the last food in the house minus his birthday snacks which he's not allowed to touch, and says he'll get breakfast at a fast food place.  This wrecks the mood, and Barley looks guilty while unable to apologize.
  • Much later, Barley and Ian go on an epic quest to try and reunite with their father for a day after Ian manages to summon their dad's legs but not much else, and they need a Phoenix Gem to try again. Ian apparently has the magical genes, but his spells tend to go wrong. In one case, his attempt to enlarge gasoline leads to Barley being shrunk and they have to walk to a gas station. Pixies also come in a motorcycle gang, easily provoked and bad-tempered. Ian advises Barley to keep to himself when the latter has to ask for the pixie-sized key to the bathroom.
    You'd Expect: Barley would do that.
    Instead: He gets into a conversation with the pixies, pixie-splaining that they used to be able to fly and probably could. These are the same pixies that intimidated a man for bumping into them by accident and said person apologized.
    The Result: Even though Ian grabs Barley and tells the pixies to ignore his kooky brother, the damage is done. Their father's legs end up insulting the pixies by accident, so the three of them have to hightail it from the posse. Ian is forced to drive on the highway for the first time while fending off bloodthirsty pixies to boot. Once they finally catch their breath and the growth spell wears off Barley, Ian has to ask why he did something so stupid.
  • Chief Bronco has been up all night searching for his stepsons, getting a lead when one of his officers says he thinks that Ian and Barley were using magic to impersonate him. His wife explains to him that she thinks the boys are on an epic quest for some reason. Bronco doesn't understand but catches up to the boys, full of Anger Born of Worry. He asks them how dare they worry their mother, never mind the whole encouraging a chimera (accidentally) to burn down her restaurant and Impersonating an Officer. Ian and Barley show off their father's legs, and try to explain they want to complete a spell to bring back their father for one day.
    You'd Expect: The first thing that Bronco would do is put their mother on the phone so that Ian and Barley can explain themselves more properly. Then he can go from there.
    Instead: He says, half-apologetically, half-angrily that he may not understand what is going on but they need to go home now before either of his sons gets in bigger trouble.
    The Result: Because they are so close to their goal, Ian drives off with Barley and their father in Gwendolyn the van, with Barley using Gwendolyn to block off the road. By the time Bronco and their mother catch up to the boys, they've unleashed a dragon made out of garbage onto the town that tries to eat Barley to recover the Phoenix Gem.
• Ratatouille has its own page.

S-Z

• Soul:
  • Joe Gardner is an aspiring jazz musician and middle-school band teacher. He's disappointed that only a handful of students take his lessons to heart and that his big break hasn't arrived. Thanks to a former student helping him get a gig with jazz performer Dorothea Williams, Joe is over the moon, walking into direct traffic and around construction sites. Someone yells at him to be careful after nearly running him over. Joe apologizes, breaking away from his phone call.
    You'd Expect: Joe would watch where he's going, and hang up the phone.
    Instead: He starts the conversation again and doesn't look where he's going.
    The Result: He suffers a Near-Death Experience; when he wakes up on Earth in a therapy cat's body, and Soul 22 is in his body, the doctor is baffled that "Joe" has no visible injuries but wants him to stay under observation for potential brain damage. In short, the guy has really dumb luck. Jerry lampshades this in the end, telling the real Joe he needs to be more careful on the mortal plane.
  • Towards the climax of the movie, 22 has realized that there is more to life than trying to live up to potential while occupying Joe's body, and realizes that she does want to try living. Moonwind is starting the ritual for everyone to return to the Zone, and it's where Joe can connect with his body for real, and 22 can find her spark.
    You'd Expect: 22 to realize that she can now find her spark and start a new life. Since Joe is technically alive, it means they both get what they want.
    Instead: She argues with Joe that she is entitled to have his body. When he points out they made a deal, she runs away angrily and tries to lose them both.
    The Result: Terry captures them. He apologizes to 22 for what happened, mistakenly thinking Joe used her, and tells off Joe for running away with his body. The Darkest Hour for 22 starts when Joe calls her out for trying to steal his life and demands her newly-formed Earth badge. When she angrily gives it up, she becomes a Lost Soul.
• Toy Story:
  • When Woody and Buzz are trapped in Sid's house, they try to escape back to Andy's house through Sid's bedroom window using Christmas lights to get across. Woody calls out to Andy's other toys to help them, and although most of the toys are willing to, Mr. Potato Head refuses because Woody had knocked Buzz out Andy's window. Woody tries to prove to the other toys that Buzz is okay and that he is with him. He asks Buzz to come to the window to prove that he is okay, but he is having a hard time because Buzz is going through a Heroic BSoD due to discovering that he is just a toy. Woody asks Buzz to give him a hand, and Buzz responds by throwing his severed arm, which had broken off when he tried to fly, to Woody.
    You'd Expect: Woody to convince Buzz that this is important and not return to the window until Buzz will cooperate. Or at least that he would ask the other toys to wait until he could get Buzz to come to the window.
    Or: For him to ask one of the toys still loyal to him to climb across and check out the situation. If they see Buzz is still alive, even if he's become uncooperative, it's likely they would believe Woody and try to convince the others that he's really telling the truth about the accident.
    Instead: Desperate to prove to the others that Buzz is alive, Woody uses Buzz's dismembered arm to pretend Buzz is there with him.
    As a Result: Woody accidentally reveals Buzz's broken arm to the other toys, and this convinces them, even the ones who up to this point were still faithful to Woody, that Woody really is guilty of murdering Buzz, and they refuse to help him, leaving him and Buzz trapped at Sid's house.
  • When Buzz gets separated from Woody on the moving truck, Woody plans on using RC to drive him back.
    You'd expect: Woody to tell the rest of Andy's toys that Buzz is out there and to prove it by using Lenny (a pair of toy binoculars). That way the rest of the toys can help him bring Buzz back to the truck.
    Instead: He doesn't say a thing and the moment he pushes RC off the truck, the rest of the toys, still upset that he knocked Buzz out the window, turn on him. Their antics almost cause Buzz to get knocked off RC and they eventually throw Woody off the truck. When they look through the binoculars and realize he's telling the truth, all their subsequent efforts fail.
• Toy Story 2:
  • In the middle of the film, the toys are looking for Woody in 'Al's Toy Barn', where early on, Rex picks up a magazine that tells him how to defeat Emporer Zurg in the 'Buzz Lightyear' Video Game, and then afterwards, they get a toy van to explore the toy store's different aisles in, with a 'Tour Guide Barbie' on the wheel. During all this, Rex is spending time looking at his magazine in the back seat.
    You'd Expect: That Rex keeps the big magazine to himself without doing anything to disrupt Tour Guide Barbie while she is at the wheel.
    Instead: Upon finding something on the magazine that tells him how to defeat Zurg, he—for no good reason—shoves the whole magazine in front of the driver's view, resulting in them accidentally hitting a large tub of bouncy balls, further causing the van to spin out of control and for Rex to have his 'Source of power,' the magazine fly out of his 'little arms' and underneath one of the lower shelves out of his reach. He even almost gets left behind as he tries to catch up with the van that veered off without him.
• Toy Story 3
  • Andy is leaving for college, and his mother tells him he has to clear out his room. She gives him instructions that garbage bags hold trash, like his apple core, and cardboard boxes hold sentimental items for storage in the attic.
    You'd Expect: Andy to follow his mother's instructions. Despite having outgrown all of his toys, he's deeply attached to the ones that survived his childhood.
    Instead: He puts his toys in a garbage bag and leaves them below the attic door. Mrs. Davis on seeing the bag puts it in the trash. Later, Andy can't find his toys, and when he explains to his mother, she goes Oh, Crap!. Fortunately, the toys make it back before Andy leaves for college, and he thinks he just misplaced them, but still!
  • Woody runs with a pair of scissors to save his friends, who manage to escape the garbage truck. By the time he catches up, however, they believe that Andy has abandoned them. Jessie is particularly hurt since it triggered her abandonment issues and claustrophobia. Woody tells them that Andy was putting them in the attic.
    You'd Expect: That they would believe Woody, and return to the attic on their own, before Andy notices they're gone.
    Instead: The toys don't believe Woody, especially since Andy's taking him to college. Jessie decides to go with Molly's abandoned Barbie to the local daycare. They soon find that the daycare is a False Utopia for new toys, and its leader Lotso won't let them return when Mrs. Potato Head sees through her missing eye that Andy is looking for them. Jessie apologizes to Woody when he comes back for them, lampshading that the toys were wrong.
  • Lotso explains to Buzz how the "system" at Sunnyside works and offers to let Buzz join his team and live in luxury in the Butterfly Room. Buzz doesn't question the system, accepting that it "makes sense," but declines the offer because he refuses to leave his friends.
    You'd Expect: Lotso would say, "Okay," and let Buzz go willingly back to the Caterpillar Room (where Lotso originally planned for him to go in the beginning) with his friends. There's no threat of rebellion at this point (just the opposite, in fact!), no danger to his system continuing to run as it always has. Buzz and the rest of Andy's toys still see him as a benevolent leader doing what's best for everyone.
    Instead: Buzz unknowingly triggers Lotso's Berserk Button when he uses the family justification, and Lotso brainwashes Buzz into serving him purely out of spite. He then goes and informs the rest of Andy's toys that they're not allowed to leave, revealing that them ending up in the Caterpillar Room wasn't a mistake and that Sunnyside "isn't a family, it's a prison," which, of course, leads to the rebellion that he tries to have Buzz stop, even though it was triggered by Lotso brainwashing Buzz and having him attack the others.
  • When trapped at the Tri-County Landfill, after the gang has saved Lotso (who was also tossed in the dumpster when the Sunnyside toys betray him and is the reason the toys are trapped there in the first place), with the incinerator in sight, Woody spots the conveyor belt off switch above them which could stop the belt and save them from a fiery death.
    You'd Expect: For Woody, Buzz, or one of the hero toys to climb up to the switch and press it to shut the belt off.
    Instead: They get Lotso to do it, and being the villain that he is, abandons on them instead of turning the belt off, forcing them to face the incinerator. Luckily, they get rescued by the aliens last-minute.
    Lotso: "Where's your kid NOW Sheriff!?"
• Turning Red:
  • Mei finds out that she inherited some powers from her mother's side: the ability to turn into a red panda. Not fun, but even less fun when she finds out her parents knew this was going to happen at some point in her life.
    You'd Expect: After the first transformation that Jin, if not Ming, would tell Mei everything they know about the transformation. Or, if neither of them is comfortable with these revelations, point Mei in the direction of talking to their neighbor Mr. Gao who is a shaman since he knows a lot about the ritual to remove the ability to transform. Ming knows everything that Grandma Lee knows, including that the ritual can fail if too many transformations happen.
    Instead: They only give out Mei information that she has to control her emotions, because excitement and extreme emotions will bring out the panda until the red moon ritual, where they can seal the beast in a talisman.
    The Result: Mei is very upset to find out from Grandma Lee that the issue with the transformations is that they can cause the ritual to fail if done too many times. This is after she spent the whole week turning into a red panda to raise money for concert funds. She becomes scared of unleashing the red panda at Tyler's birthday party, after he blackmailed her into being the paid entertainment.
    Fortunately: During the red moon ritual, Mei realizes that she doesn't want to suppress her panda side and accepts it wholeheartedly. This gives her complete control over her transformations, and she never again sports fur and a tail unless she wishes.
• Up:
  • Carl Fredericksen is a grumpy old man who admires Charles Muntz, a former explorer. By the random chance, Muntz is still alive in Paradise Falls, and after nearly running Carl down with dogs, realizes he's not hunting "his bird" on seeing a house tethered to the old man's back. Over dinner, Muntz explains that he mainly gets people trying to "steal" his work rather than fans. Carl gets uneasy, especially when Russell, the kid who tagged along by accident, blabs that he has a new bird pet Kevin who loves chocolate. Then he sees Kevin hanging around the roof of the house. He made a promise to protect the bird.
    You'd Expect: Carl watches his words and explain that he's been trying to get rid of the bird since it's been following him and Russell around. He really is trying to get his house to Paradise Falls and reason with a potential murderer who happens to be his hero. Meanwhile, he should signal to Russell to stop talking.
    Instead: He lies that the bird ran away, in an obviously suspicious manner. Then he tries to leave.
    Predictably: Muntz catches onto the Blatant Lies and tells them to "Stay for dessert" so he can find out how Russell had the bird come willingly to him. Russell is oblivious enough to fall for the ploy. If not for Kevin causing a distraction and helping bust them out, along with Dug deciding to turn against Muntz, they would have been trapped, interrogated, and probably killed. Muntz decides to gun for them and use Dug's tracking collar to get the bird, nearly burning down the house in the process.

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